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Good intentions pave the way to hell

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Phraseologism: With good intentions, the road to hell is paved.

Meaning: There are much more good intentions than good deeds, therefore people who have good intentions but do not carry them out cannot be considered righteous and thus cannot yet count on going to Paradise.

Origin: The authorship of the expression is often attributed to the English writer Samuel Johnson. His biographer James Boswell recounts in his memoirs that in 1755 Johnson said "Hell is paved with good intentions". However, Walter Scott in his novel The Bride of Lamermoor (1819) attributes its origin to one of the English theologians. The most likely original author of the saying is considered to be the 21th-century English theologian George Herbert, in whose book "Jacula prudentium" there is the phrase "Hell is full of good meaning and wishings" - "Hell is full of good intentions and desires." With this saying, Herbert illustrated one of the main ideas of Protestant ethics, according to which the validity of faith inevitably leads to the performance of good deeds. This saying echoes the saying from the apocrypha - in the book of Jesus, the son of Sirach, there is a phrase: "The path of sinners is paved with stones, but at the end of it is the abyss of hell" (Sirach 11:XNUMX).

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To fix the mess.

Meaning:

To unravel a complex, troublesome, or unpleasant matter (disapproved).

Origin:

The expression is part of the proverb "He himself brewed porridge, he himself disentangled" and "Whoever brewed porridge, he disentangled it." There are several versions of the origin of this turnover: 1) the expression and the corresponding proverb have ancient analogies in Greek and Latin, 2) the expression and proverb are associated with the original Russian everyday and ritual attitude to porridge, the complexity of arranging wedding feasts, etc., 3) phraseology and the proverb (formed around the 4th century) are based on the special meaning of the word porridge - "the first dish, a kind of liquid stew with cereals." In the old days, they slurped such liquid porridge, that is, they ate it like soup, XNUMX) an expression that goes back to a proverb is not actually Russian, since there are analogies in other Slavic languages.

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